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| Keywords: Turkish - Cuirass (Breastplate and Backplate) - Walters 51420.jpg The Turkish arms and armor collected during the 1500s and 1600s in Habsburg circles were either trophies of a feared enemy or diplomatic gifts They reflected efforts to repel the invasions of Europe by successive sultans of the Ottoman dynasty who as caliphs-successors of the prophet Muhammad as leaders of Islam-considered themselves obliged to wage holy wars against non-Muslims The Ottoman Empire with its capital at Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey reached its height as a world power during the reign of Suleiman I the Magnificent r 1520-66 whose European incursions reached as far as Vienna The Habsburgs led the defense of Christian Europe the Spanish branch at sea and in North Africa and the Austrian branch on land with a decisive victory in 1683 at Vienna This armor once belonged to the St Irene royal arsenal in Istanbul Turkey as it bears the distinctive mark tamga composed of a circle enclosing a loop over three vertical lines the stamp is clearly visible on the upper right side of the breast plate between 1500 1575 embossed steel cm 31 2 accession number 51 420 25759 S Irene Arsenal of Constantinople Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore 1911 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 place of origin Ottoman Turkey in present-day Anatolia Turkey Walters Art Museum license Islamic metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Indo-Persian armour in the Walters Art Museum Armour of the Ottoman Empire Art from Turkey Krug 16th-century armour | ||||
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